💥 Attaining Excellence with Airbnb, Stanley Kubrick, Maya Angelou, and more
The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.
Josh Waitzkin • The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
“Airbnb is grand about the vision for a product. With Airbnb Plus we rented out homes, redecorated them, and photographed them to help people understand the vision. On another project, the PM worked with the creative team to film a movie of what the experience would look like, the production value was extremely high. This goes back to the Disney in
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More and more, creative people are going to be expected to manage their own business, their own marketing, their own promotion. And I think just as equally, business people are going to find that their world is enhanced by being creative.
Rolf Potts • Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul: Rolf Potts — How to Find Soulful Success and The Dance Between Creativity and Business
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“Great work resists compression.
Great explanations are short, but potent.
Great software delivers the same outcome in fewer clicks.
Great manufacturing processes create products in less time and with less waste.
The shape of genius is simplicity.”
Great explanations are short, but potent.
Great software delivers the same outcome in fewer clicks.
Great manufacturing processes create products in less time and with less waste.
The shape of genius is simplicity.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: Small Habits With Big Plans, the Shape of Genius, and Advice to a Younger Self - James Clear
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